Indexed drill cabinet



Oct. 17, 1933. E. F. Huo'r INDEXED DRILL CABINET y /z 36 a@ PatentedOct. 17, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INDEXED DRILL CABINET EugeneF. Huot, St. Paul, Minn. Application May 31, 1930. Serial No. 458,388 2claims. (ci. 20er-17.5)

This invention relates to indexed drill cabinets of the type used forstoring assorted sets of drills used for cutting holes in wood or metal.

The chief object of this invention is to provide an indexed drillcabinet of convenient size for storing drills and adapted to facilitatethe quick selection and removal of the desired drill.

A further object of this invention is to provide an indexed drillcabinet for storing drills in seleclo tive groups according to size andtilting those groups not desired out of the way to allow the freeselection and removal of the desired drill.

It is also an object of this invention to provide hinged traysconveniently formed to hold the l5 drills in the proper position andseparated from each other while stored in the cabinet and thumb holds oneach tray to provide for easily tilting the trays.

Another important object of this invention is to provide an indexeddrill cabinet that may be easily and cheaply constructed of materials treadily available and is of such compact form as to be readily vplacedin a small drawer or other convenient place.

These and other objects and advantages of this invention will be morefully set forth in the following description made in connection with theaccompanying drawing, in which like reference characters refer to thesame parts throughout the different views, and in which,

Fig. 1 is front elevation of the indexed drill cabinet showing the dooropen.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the drill holder removed from thecabinet.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the indexed drill cabinet is shown comprisinga cabinet body A, a cover B and hinged drill holders C. The cabinet Ahas a back member 10 and a pair of substantially parallel side members12 and end members 14 extending from the marginal edge of the backmember 10.

An inner casing 16 is disposed within the cabinet and is held in placeby the ears 18, extending from the side members 12 and bent over thecasing 16.

A plurality of pivot bars 20 are held in place by the` inner casing 16and extend through the walls thereof. The pivot bars 20 are disposed infixed relation to each other and are spaced from each other in steppedrelation both longitudinally and vertically of the walls of the casing16 and are locked against lateral displacement by the side walls 12 ofthe cabinet A. It will be noted that one end wall 14 is disposed at anangle to the side walls 12 and that the pivot bars 20 lie below theupper edge of both the side and end walls when in normal or horizontalposition so that the angular end wall 14 constitutes a stop 60 toprevent the drills from falling from the holders C if the cabinet isinverted when closed.

A pair of hinge members 22 extend from one of the side walls 12 andencase a portion of the rod 24. Hingedly connected to the rod 24 are a65 pair of hinge members 26 secured to the door A and positionedintermediate the hinge mem- I bers 24.

The drill holders C are suspended from the. pivot bars 20 and comprise afront plate 28, hav- 70 ing its upper edge bent forward to form a topplate 30. A plurality of holes 32 are positioned in the top plate 30 andare formed to receive various size drills 34. Adjacent the holes 32 onthe front plate 28 are placed index marks 36 75 and 38 to designate thesize of drill contained in each of the holes 32. The sides 40 oi.' thedrill holder C are formed backward and a hole 42 is placed near thelower extremity thereof. The pivot rods 20 are passed through the holes42 and 80 hingedly support the drill holder C within the cabinet B.

The lower end 44 of the drill holder C is also formed backward andbecomes a bottom stop for the drills to rest on. The outer extremity 65thereof is formed upward at the rear of the drill holder C and forms apluralityv of corrugations 48 to hold the drills in an upright position.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that a novel indexeddrill cabinet is provided for the convenient storing of drills or othersimilar tools or gages. The cabinet is designed to be easily stored in aconvenient place and is especially adapted to be placed in the smalldrawers of the tool boxes usually owned by skilled workmen. It issuperior to the ordinary drill stand because it readily adapts itself toa system of making eachA workman responsible for the drills in hispossession. This is possible because each worker can easily keep thisdrill cabinet within his own tool chest and thereby prevent theborrowing of his drills by other -employes This system does not lenditself readily to the bench type of drill stands.

It is apparent that the drills are readily avail- 105 able and theindexing on each drill holder enables the user to quickly select thedrills and nd the proper location for replacing the drills.

In view of the foregoing description when considered in conjunction withthe drawing, it will at once be apparent that have produced a highlynovel, simple and extremely eilicient indefied drill cabinet which isWell adapted for all the purposes heretofore designated and can beeasily and cheaply constructed of material readily available.

While the preferred form of my invention has been shown and described itis to be understood that various changes may be made in the details eiconstruction and in the combination of the various parts, within thescope of the claims, Without departing from the spirit of my invenntion.

What l claim is:

l. An indexed drill cabinet comprising an outer casing having side andend Walls, a cover hingedly mounted on one of said walls, an innercasing rigidly mounted Within said outer casing, and having side Wallsextending substantially parallel to the side Walls of said outer casing,a plurality of rods journalled in the side walls of said inner casing,said rods being disposed in reader? xed relation to each other and instepped relation `noth vertically and longitudinally of said side walls,and a plurality of drill holders mounted upon said rods within saidinner casing, said drill holders carrying designations to' indicate thesize of the drills contained in said holders.

2. A drill cabinet comprising an outer casing, an inner casing securedwithin said outer casing, a plurality of transversely extending paralleixed rods passing through said inner casing in stepped relation upwardlyand rearwardly with respect to each other, said rods being held fromendwise movement by said outer casing, drill `nolders hingedly mountedon said rods, said drill holders having a plurality of holes therein atthe free ends of the holders to retain and gauge drills placed therein,and said -holders adjacent the hinged ends thereof having corrugatedportions adapted to retain the drills in parallel spaced relation withrespect to each other.

EUGENE F. HUOT.

